David Brief
37Patents
13h-index
33Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Dec 9, 1992 → Mar 31, 2020
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6145045A | System for sending and receiving data on a Universal Serial Bus (USB) using a memory shared among a number of end points | Electricity | 61 | Expired |
| US8286188B1 | Method and apparatus for advanced interprocess communication | Physics | 56 | Active |
| US6205501A | Apparatus and method for handling universal serial bus control transfers | Physics | 56 | Expired |
| US6122676A | Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving data into and out of a universal serial bus device | Physics | 48 | Expired |
| US6157975A | Apparatus and method for providing an interface to a compound Universal Serial Bus controller | Physics | 39 | Expired |
| US9244865B2 | Obtaining diagnostic information through host interfaces | Physics | 33 | Active |
| US6173355A | System for sending and receiving data on a universal serial bus (USB) using a memory shared among a number of endpoints | Electricity | 30 | Expired |
| US5903777A | Increasing the availability of the universal serial bus interconnects | Physics | 25 | Expired |
| US6678760B2 | Apparatus and method of transmitting and receiving USB isochronous data | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US5875210A | Method and apparatus for repeating data | Electricity | 19 | Expired |
| US5566203A | Intelligent repeater functionality | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 18 | Expired |
| US5608869A | Method and apparatus for reliable descriptor chaining in a media access control/host system interface unit | Electricity | 18 | Expired |
| US5511166A | Method and apparatus for receive frame sorting in a media access control/host system interface unit | Electricity | 18 | Expired |
| US5459731A | Link error monitoring | Electricity | 13 | Expired |
| US5465250A | Hybrid loopback for FDDI-II slave stations | Electricity | 12 | Expired |
| US8819328B2 | Controller and method for performing background operations | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 11 | Active |
| US6070208A | Apparatus and method for implementing a versatile USB endpoint pipe | Physics | 11 | Expired |
| US5333270A | FDDI configuration management state machine controller | Electricity | 9 | Expired |
| US10719100B2 | System and method for time stamp synchronization | Electricity | 8 | Active |
| US5390183A | PCM pseudo code signalling user interface | Electricity | 6 | Expired |
| US5440557A | Apparatus and methods for providing an interface between FDDI-II rings | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 5 | Expired |
| US9400734B2 | Apparatuses and methods for generating event codes including event source | Physics | 5 | Active |
| US10725687B1 | Settable replay protected memory block characteristics in a logic unit | Physics | 5 | Active |
| US10621116B2 | Non-volatile storage device with adaptive data bus inversion | Physics | 4 | Active |
| US11169744B2 | Boosting reads of chunks of data | Physics | 4 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.